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Record Id:
032-001989399
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-001989399
MDARK:
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Add MS 73537
Title:

David Gascoyne: notebook of David Emery Gascoyne, poet (b.1916, d. 2001); [1937-1938], n.d. Autograph. Containing poetry, notes and lists, and journal entries, written from both ends of the volume. For another notebook of Gascoyne, see Add. 74774. Purchased from Maggs Bros. Ltd.; 28 Jan. 1998.

Paper; ff. ii + 45. 226 x 179mm. Wanting the front cover.

1. ff. 1-37 passim. Poems include: [Untitled], beg. ‘The twilight eats the seeds …’: ― [untitled], beg. ‘[Cont] of its palace of shell…’: ― ‘The Moon Over London’: ―‘Transparency of the Vegetable World seen from Three Paces away by the Three Faces of a Factory’: ― ‘Proem’: ― ‘Ex Nihilo’ (extensively re-worked and published in Miserere 1989) (ff. 36-37). Apart from the last, the poems are apparently unpublished. Other contents as follows: notes from the foreword to Rimbaud’s ‘Deserts of Love’ published in Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters (1966), translated by Wallace Fowlie (ff. 4-5): ― piece entitled ‘A Letter’ (ff. 8-19): ― two lists headed ‘Occult etc’ (f. 24) and ‘English literature 20th century’ (f. 34). The notebook was also used as a journal, with an entry for 16 Sept. 1937 (ff. 26-30) not published in Paris Journal 1937-1939 (1978) or Journal 1936-37 (1980). An entry for 22 Nov. 1938 (ff. 31-32) in the form a letter to ‘Lee’ was also not published in Paris Journal 1937-1939 but might be the letter referred to ibidem p.89. Inserted is a letter from Alan Clodd to Edward Maggs, 18 Nov. 1994, relating to a reference to ‘Roland’ in the notebook (f. ii).

2. ff. 45v-4v passim (the volume has been reversed, and the following written on the versos of some of the leaves) ‘Myself’, a self-examination dated Monday 18 Jan. [n.y.] in sections as follows: ‘Free association with the word ‘mother’, ‘Interpretation’, ‘What is my aim in life and what is preventing me from achieving it?’, ‘Sex’, ‘Money’ and ‘Balance – Summing up’ (ff. 45v-34v): ― notes dated 22 May 1937 relating to a poem entitled ‘Proem’ in the style of Wordsworth’s ‘Prelude’ (f. 35v): ― notes from The Notebooks of Leonardo de Vinci, Volume 2 (1939), ed. Jean Paul Richter (ff. 19v-14v): ― bibliography entitled ‘Occult, etc’ (ff. 32v-31v) and a list for ‘Britain in Pictures’ (f. 4v).

Scope & Content:

David Emery Gascoyne, poet: Notebook: [1937-1938]: Autogr.

Poetry ENGLISH: Poems by David Gascoyne: 1936-[1938], n.d.: Autogr.

includes:

  • f. ii Alan Clodd, book collector and dealer: Edward Maggs, bookseller: Letter to Edward Maggs from Alan Clodd: 1994: Signed.
  • f. 1 David Emery Gascoyne, poet: Poem, untitled, beg. 'The twilight eats the seeds. . .': n.d.: Autogr.
  • f. 2 David Emery Gascoyne, poet: Poem, untitled, '[Cont] of it palace of shell. . .': n.d.: Autogr.
  • f. 3 David Emery Gascoyne, poet: Poem, 'The Moon Over London': n.d.: Autogr.
  • ff. 4-5 David Emery Gascoyne, poet: Notes on the foreword to Jean Rimbaud's 'The Deserts of Love': n.d.: Autogr.
  • f. 6 David Emery Gascoyne, poet: Poem, 'Transparency of the Vegetable World . . . ': n.d.: Autogr.
  • ff. 8-19 David Emery Gascoyne, poet: Piece entitled 'A Letter': n.d.: Autogr.
  • ff. 19v-14v (vol. rev.) David Emery Gascoyne, poet: Notes from J. P. Richter's 'Notebooks of Leonardo de Vinci': n.d.: Autogr.
  • f. 21 David Emery Gascoyne, poet: Poem, 'Proem': n.d.: Autogr.
  • ff. 24, 34, 4v David Emery Gascoyne, poet: Lists entitled 'Occult etc', 'English literature 20th century' and 'Britain in Pictures': n.d.: Autogr.
  • ff. 26-32 David Emery Gascoyne, poet: Journal entries: 1937-1938: Autogr.
  • ff. 32v-31v (vol. rev.) David Emery Gascoyne, poet: Bibliography entitled 'Occult, etc': n.d.: Autogr.
  • f. 35v David Emery Gascoyne, poet: Poem, 'Proem', imitating Wordsworth's 'Prelude': n.d.: Autogr.
  • ff. 36-37 David Emery Gascoyne, poet: Poem, 'Ex Nihilo': n.d.: Autogr.
  • ff. 45v-34v (vol. rev.) David Emery Gascoyne, poet: Notes entitled 'Myself': n.d.: Autogr.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
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Hierarchy:
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1937
End Date:
1938
Date Range:
[1937-1938]
Era:
CE
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Names:
Clodd, Alan, book collector and dealer, 1918-2002
Gascoyne, David Emery, poet, 1916-2001
Maggs, Edward, bookseller